740.00119 Control (Italy)/5–1545: Telegram
The Ambassador in Yugoslavia (Patterson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 16—4:15 a.m.]
87. At 6:30 tonight Stevenson and I saw Marshal Tito and presented separate notes embodying message in Deptel 86, May 14. After [Page 1164] reading notes, Tito said that as Yugoslav troops had conquered this territory by force of arms and bloodshed, it was unfair that they should not be allowed to stay on it. Yugoslavia was evidently a third class Ally which did not enjoy the same rights as other classes of Allies. He had only just received the British and United States notes asking him to withdraw his troops from Austria (Deptel 88, May 14)49 and now received these notes about Venezia Giulia. All he could say was that he was surprised. He promised to reply tomorrow, May 16.